What is a good way to go about getting into the Warhammer 40,000 universe? I'm unsure if I have the time or finances for model painting, but the lore interests me greatly, what little I've heard of it.
The new rule book comes with a lore primer.
Codices are a good way of learning about each of the armies.
Imperial Armor is good if you want to read historicalesque military campaigns.
Black Library is good for stories.
I just play the video games and read the wikia to be honest. Both are very entertaining to me.
>>43941570
Yeah, wiki surfing was something I did in high school when I was first getting into 40k, since I had an office assistant period where I had nothing to do but sit on the available computer and skim the web, for the most part.
The novels are also a good place to start. Choices that seem to be the least controversial are:
>Gaunt's Ghosts
>Eisenhorn
>Ciaphas Cain
>Space Wolf
>Horus Heresy (first 5~ books, after that the series splits up; there are some guides that recommend which ones are good or part of their own miniseries)
>>43942027
Caaaaaaaaaaain,!!!!
>>43942027
imma add some more
15 hours
enforcer
redemption corps
double fucking eagle
>>43942061
...This picture makes me want to have a setting about the Borrowers or the Thimble People or some shit, except they have replaced normal humans, and it's WW1 or WW2.
The scale, holy shit.
a standard No Man's Land from WW1 would either be the sum total of a couple meters, or the same size and comparatively so much larger.
>>43943913
All the while they would be plagued by giant megafauna and standard-sized insects devouring their great cities during a hot season.
Fucking rural towns would have giant walls and AA guns, standard, possibly armored vehicles.
Bump.
>>43941194
I recommend the Dawn of War series.
>>43941194
Who made that and where can I get it?
>>43941194
I got into it when I read the Ciaphas Cain novels, which I hugely recommend by the way. Before that I knew only very little about it but somehow they just kind of... opened the door for me.
>>43941194
Dawn of War.
>>43941194
>>43942027 is a good start. I would add Ravenor and Double Eagle.
>>43941194
Play dawn of war dark crusade/soulstorm->pick a race and play the campaign->check out the lexicanum (website)/the codex of your race (probably on torrent sites).
